When you place a loved one in a nursing home or long-term care facility, you trust the staff to provide safe, attentive, and dignified care. Unfortunately, understaffing, poor training, and cost-cutting at some facilities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey lead to neglect that leaves residents injured, in pain, or worse. If someone you love has suffered because a nursing home failed to meet its basic obligations, the nursing home neglect lawyers at Wieand Parker Arreola, PLLC, can help you understand your legal options and pursue accountability.
Neglect occurs when a facility or its staff fails to provide the care, supervision, or services a resident needs, even without any intent to cause harm. This is legally distinct from abuse, which involves an intentional act, though the two often overlap and both can support a claim. Common signs of neglect include:
Residents of licensed nursing homes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are protected under state and federal law, including nursing home resident’s rights statutes and, in Pennsylvania, the Older Adults Protective Services Act. Facilities are required to maintain adequate staffing, develop individualized care plans, and report suspected abuse or neglect. When a facility falls short of these obligations and a resident is harmed as a result, the facility and, in some cases, its staff and ownership group can be held civilly liable.
Nursing home neglect cases often require digging into staffing records, incident reports, and medical charts to establish what happened and who is responsible. Our firm has recovered significant compensation for families affected by nursing home neglect, including a $937,500 result in a nursing home neglect case. We work with medical and long-term care experts to build the strongest possible case for injured residents and their families.
If you suspect that a parent, spouse, or other loved one has been neglected in a Pennsylvania or New Jersey nursing home or assisted living facility, don’t wait to get answers. Call Wieand Parker Arreola, PLLC, at (215) 666-7777 or contact us online for a free, confidential consultation.
